PLC: Electronic Template

While paper-based PLCs are useful, electronic PLCs bring a new dimension to the teaching table in a couple of ways: Firstly, they allow students to type / cut-and-paste content directly into their PLC. You can, for example, provide a list of required content in text format for your students at relevant points in the course […]

Personal Learning Checklist Template

Personal Learning Checklists (PLCs) are a simple and effective tool for identifying the extent to which your students feel confident they have grasped the key course content you have defined for them. Although the basic idea has been around in various forms for a number of years, if you’re not familiar with it, PLCs involve: […]

A-Level Revision: Education

As an addendum to the Revision Booklets post, here’s one I missed earlier – an extensive revision booklet for AS Education produced by Greenhead College. As you might expect from a Sociology department consistently ranked as outstanding by Ofsted their approach is: Thorough – the booklet includes a comprehensive set of revision notes. Informative – […]

GCSE Revision Resources

While it’s probably fair to say that teacher-created GCSE revision resources are a bit thin on the ground (and take a bit of finding), there are useful resources “out there” if you’re prepared to do a lot of searching. To save you the time and trouble, here’s some I found earlier (the quality’s a bit […]

Sociology Factsheets: To Buy or DIY?

Like all good ideas, this one is simple but effective. Distil topic notes into key knowledge points, add illustrative examples and brief overviews of advantages and disadvantages, throw in some exam tips and short “test yourself” questions, call it a factsheet and sell it at a very reasonable price to teachers – which is exactly […]

Global Sociology Stuff

Today’s dose of “Sociology Stuff” is a complete Global Development chapter (or “World Sociology” as it was when these notes were written) originally created by Mark Peace and cobbled together from pages in my possession and those shared by Bridget Gray. Because of the somewhat arbitrary recreation of the chapter some of the initial pages […]

Lesson Plans: Family | Class | Religion

Whatever your teaching situation or level of experience, Other People’s Lesson Plans can sometimes be a bit of a god-send – particularly when they come from the pen of practising teachers: whether you’re looking for a different way to teach a familiar topic, a set of basic ideas you can adapt to your own working […]

Yet More Sociology Stuff: Education

A few more pdf pages from the inestimable pen of Mark Peace that, in no particular order (and with no particular logic), cover the following: Natural Intelligence Introduction to education Vocational education Private education  Class and DEA – inside school factors DEA – Cultural difference theory

A2 Psychology: Research Methods Free Chapter

One of the simple pleasures of Wandering the Web™ for a living, made all the more enjoyable by that intangible sense of the unexpected (I know, I live my life through contradictions), is coming across Stuff That Is Free. My not-so-little face lights up at the mere thought of finding Something For Nothing, even though […]

Sociological Detectives: Evidence Summary Sheet

To complement the Theory Summary sheet you can combine it with the Evidence Summary sheet that performs a similar function within the Sociological Detectives sim. In this respect it provides: A basic structure for students to follow when making notes about the different kinds of evidence they can use to support or question theoretical explanations […]